WinSPCW Scenario Testing - Antietam, morning, September 17, 1862

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The focus of this scenario is the action at the West Woods and Miller's Cornfield, which was the scene of intense, horrific fighting.

"..the most deadly fire of the war. Rifles are shot to pieces in the hands of the soldiers, canteens and haversacks are riddled with bullets, the dead and wounded go down in scores" - Captain Benjamin F. Cook of the 12th Massachusetts Infantry, on the attack by the Louisiana Tigers at the Cornfield

".. every stalk of corn in the northern and greater part of the field was cut as closely as could have been done with a knife, and the rebel slain lay in rows precisely as they had stood in their ranks a few moments before" - Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker

Major General Joseph Hooker's 1st Corps, Federal Army of the Potomac, advances south against Major General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's Left Wing, Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.